·Requirement
of grade of C or higher for transfer credit to be dropped.

·Forty-one
hour core approved.

·Computer
literacy requirement dropped.

·"Portfolio"
effect--all classes that do not meet new requirements will need to be quickly
revised through departments and Curriculum Committee.

·UT
Articulation Agreements are being revised by Berta Ward and Cheryl Leach
to fit new criteria.

·Please
review curriculum to find more courses that may be taken by students who
are still in DSP courses, so there will not be a problem finding 12 hours
of credit for these students to take.

Testing
Centers

·Testing
Center is overwhelmed with the number of students using their services,
especially during the last two weeks of the semester.

·Could
staffing be supplemented by allowing faculty who need to make up credit
hours work as back up to the Testing Center staff?

·Could
math re-testing be cut back in the future?

IV.Standing
Committee Reports

Adjunct
FacultySellers,
Feezell

Rasey
Feezell has found from responses sent from other East Tennessee TBR schools
that PSTCC is dead last in adjunct pay in this area of the state. He will
continue to tabulate responses and seek ways to remedy this situation.

Promo/TenureJean
Jackson/Toni McDanielNo report

High
Performance Teaching*Elaine Oswald

Next
workshop on January 15, 1-3 p.m.Please
support this excellent program!

Christmas
Party at Lisa's December 6—please come even if you didn’t RSVP.

Rules
CommitteeChuck
WrightNo report

V. Unfinished
Business

VI.New
Business

Motion
1:

PSTCC
Faculty Council proposes to study the impact of web delivery on the effectiveness and
efficiency of student learning and faculty teaching.

Discussion
followed of the problem of cheating in online courses, with one survey
indicating that over 50% of students admitted to cheating in online classes.

Lisa
proposes an online discussion list to take up one question per week related
to online teaching.

Kathy
Byrd asked whether this was really a motion or just a proposal for an online
discussion.

The
idea of asking Audrey to help set up such a list was proposed.

Problem
of more and more good f.t. teachers being diverted to online and Regents
online classes.

Motion 1, after discussion, was resolved
by F.C. agreeing to set up an online discussion of issues pertaining to
online courses. This action was agreed to without a formal vote on the
motion.

Proposal
for free
courses at Pellissippi for adjunct faculty

Rasey
Feezell proposed a motion to request that Pellissippi allow adjunct faculty
to take one PSTCC course per semester for free, in order to upgrade their
skills, as full-time faculty are already allowed to do. Discussion followed
as to whether this decision was under PSTCC or TBR policy, so the wording
of the motion was re-phrased as follows:

Motion
2:

Faculty
Council moves that PSTCC look into the possibility of allowing adjunct
faculty to take free courses
at Pellissippi and to raise the issue with Faculty Sub-Council if the decision must
be made at the TBR level.